Abridged Bibliography
Books
- Boulanger, Richard. The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing, and Programming. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
- Chadabe, J. 1997. Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
- Cope, David. 1991. Computers and Musical Style. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Cope, David. 1996. Experiments in Music Intelligence. Madison, WI: A-R Editions.
- Cope, David. Virtual Music. MIT Press, 2001.
- Cope, David. The Algorithmic Composer. Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 2000.
- Dodge, Charles. and T. A. Jerse. 1997. Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance. New York: Shirmer Books.
- Emmerson, Simon. The Language of Electroacoustic Music. Harwood, 1986.
- Johnson, S. 1997. Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate. San Francisco: Basic Books.
- Kalay, V. E. 2004. Architecture's New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
- Lerdahl, Fred and R. Jackendoff. 1983. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Lerdahl, Fred. Tonal Pitch Space. Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Maeda, J. 2001. Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation. New York: Thames & Hudson.
- Maeda, J. 2001. Design By Numbers. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Manning, Peter. Electronic and Computer Music. Oxford U. Press, 2004.
- Miranda, Eduardo Reck. Composing Music With Computers. Burlington: Focal Press, 2001.
- Miranda, E. R., ed. 2000. Readings in Music and Artificial Intelligence. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.
- Pope, S. T. 1991. The Well Tempered Object: Musical Application of Object Orientated Software Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Puckette, Miller. Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music (draft). UCSD, 2003. Internet: http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques.htm
- Roads, Curtis. The Computer Music Tutorial. MIT Press, 1996.
- Roads, Curtis. Microsound. MIT Press, 2001.
- Rowe, Robert. Interactive Music Systems: Machine Listening and Composing. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1993.
- Rowe, Robert. Machine Musicianship. MIT Press, 2002.
- Reuter, C. 2002. Musical Dice Games; by Mozart, Haydn, and other great composers. Mainz: Schott Musik International.
- Schillinger, J. 1941. The Schillinger System of Musical Composition. New York: Carl Fischer.
- Schillinger, J. 1948. The Mathematical Basis of the Arts. New York: Carl Fischer.
- Selfridge-Field, E. ed. Beyond MIDI: the Handbook of Musical Codes. Cambrdige: MIT Press. 41-72.
- Winker, Todd. Composing Interactive Music. MIT Press, 1997.
- Winsor, P. 1987. Computer-Assisted Music Composition. Princeton: Petrocelli Books.
- Winsor, P. 1989. Automated Music Composition. Denton: University of North Texas.
- Winsor, P. 1990. Computer Composer's Toolbox. New York: Windcrest.
- Winsor, Phil. Computer Music in C. UNT Press, 1991.
- Wishart, Trevor. Audible Design. Orpheus the Pantomime Ltd., 1994.
- Wishart, Trevor. On Sonic Art. Routledge, 1996.
- Xenakis, Iannis. Formalized Music. Pendragon Press, 1994.
Articles
- Ames, C. 1991. "A Catalog of Statistical Distributions: Techniques for Transforming Random, Determinate and Chaotic Sequences." Leonardo Music Journal 1(1): 55-70.
- Ames, C. 1989. "The Markov Process as a Compositional Model: A Survey and Tutorial." Leonardo 22(2): 175-187.
- Ariza, C. 2005. "Navigating the Landscape of Computer-Aided Algorithmic Composition Systems: A Definition, Seven Descriptors, and a Lexicon of Systems and Research." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 765-772. Internet: http://www.flexatone.net/docs/nlcaacs.pdf
- Beyls, P. 2004. "Cellular Automata Mapping Procedures." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 55-58.
- Dannenberg, R. 1993. "Music Representation Issues, Techniques, and Systems." Computer Music Journal 17(3): 20-30.
- Doornbusch, P. 2002. "A Brief Survey of Mapping in Algorithmic Compositions." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 205-210.
- Gogins, M. 1991. "Iterated Functions Systems Music." Computer Music Journal 15(1): 40-48.
- Honing, H. 2001. "From Time to Time: The Representation of Timing and Tempo." Computer Music Journal 25(3): 50-61.
- Johnson, C. G. 2003. "Exploring sound-space with interactive genetic algorithms." Leonardo 36(1): 51-54.
- Roads, C. 1979. "Grammars as Representations for Music." Computer Music Journal 3(1): 48-55.
- Simoni, M. 2003. Algorithmic Composition: A Gentle Introduction to Music Composition Using Common LISP and Common Music. Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, the University of Michigan University Library. Internet: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx? c=spobooks;cc=spobooks;q1=simoni;rgn=div1; view=toc;idno=bbv9810.0001.001; node=bbv9810.0001.001%3A4
- Spiegel, L. 1989. "Distinguishing Random, Algorithmic, and Intelligent Music." Internet: http://retiary.org/ls/writings /alg_comp_ltr_to_cem.html
Full Bibliography
Books
- Balaban, M. and K. Ebcioglu, O. E. Laske. 1992. Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition. Cambridge: AAAI Press / MIT Press.
- Boulanger, Richard. The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing, and Programming. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
- Brün, H. 2004. When Music Resists Meaning: The Major Writings of Herbert Brün. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
- Chadabe, J. 1997. Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
- Cope, David. 1991. Computers and Musical Style. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Cope, David. 1996. Experiments in Music Intelligence. Madison, WI: A-R Editions.
- Cope, David. Virtual Music. MIT Press, 2001.
- Cope, David. The Algorithmic Composer. MIT Press, year.
- Dodge, Charles. and T. A. Jerse. 1997. Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance. New York: Shirmer Books.
- Emmerson, Simon. The Language of Electroacoustic Music. Harwood, 1986.
- Goehr, L. 1992. The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Hertz, J. and A. Krogh, R. Palmer. 1991. Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation. Redwood City: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
- Hofstadter, D. R. 1996. Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought. Basic Books.
- Holtzman, S. R. 1994. Digital Mantras: The Languages of Abstract and Virtual Worlds. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Johnson, S. 1997. Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate. San Francisco: Basic Books.
- Kalay, V. E. 2004. Architecture's New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
- Lerdahl, Fred and R. Jackendoff. 1983. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Lerdahl, Fred. Tonal Pitch Space. MIT Press, 2002.
- Loy, D. G. and P. M. Todd. 1991. Music and Connectionism. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Maeda, J. 2001. Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation. New York: Thames & Hudson.
- Maeda, J. 2001. Design By Numbers. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Manning, Peter. Electronic and Computer Music. Oxford U. Press, 2004.
- Matthews, Max, ed. Current Directions in Computer Music Research. M. V. Mathews and J. R. Pierce, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press. 291-396.
- Miranda, Eduardo Reck. Composing Music With Computers. Burlington: Focal Press, 2001.
- Miranda, E. R., ed. 2000. Readings in Music and Artificial Intelligence. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.
- Pope, S. T. 1991. The Well Tempered Object: Musical Application of Object Orientated Software Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Puckette, Miller. Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music (draft). UCSD, 2003. Internet: http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques.htm
- Roads, Curtis. The Computer Music Tutorial. MIT Press, 1996.
- Roads, Curtis. Microsound. MIT Press, 2001.
- C. Roads, ed. 1985. Composers and the Computer. Los Altos: William Kaufmann, Inc.
- Roads, C. and J. Strawn, eds. 1985. Foundations of Computer Music. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- C. Roads, ed. 1989. The Music Machine: Selected Readings from Computer Music Journal. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Rowe, Robert. Interactive Music Systems: Machine Listening and Composing. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1993.
- Rowe, Robert. Machine Musicianship. MIT Press, 2002.
- Reuter, C. 2002. Musical Dice Games; by Mozart, Haydn, and other great composers. Mainz: Schott Musik International.
- Schillinger, J. 1941. The Schillinger System of Musical Composition. New York: Carl Fischer.
- Schillinger, J. 1948. The Mathematical Basis of the Arts. New York: Carl Fischer.
- Selfridge-Field, E. ed. Beyond MIDI: the Handbook of Musical Codes. Cambrdige: MIT Press. 41-72.
- Taylor, T. 2002. Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture. Routledge.
- Temperley, David. The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.
- Winker, Todd. Composing Interactive Music. MIT Press, 1997.
- Winsor, P. 1987. Computer-Assisted Music Composition. Princeton: Petrocelli Books.
- Winsor, P. 1989. Automated Music Composition. Denton: University of North Texas.
- Winsor, P. 1990. Computer Composer's Toolbox. New York: Windcrest.
- Winsor, Phil. Computer Music in C. UNT Press, 1991.
- Wishart, Trevor. Audible Design. Orpheus the Pantomime Ltd., 1994.
- Wishart, Trevor. On Sonic Art. Publisher, year.
- Wolfram, S. 2002. A New Kind of Science. Champaign: Wolfram Media, Inc. Internet: http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html
- Xenakis, Iannis. Formalized Music. Pendragon Press, 1994.
Journal Articles 2001-2005 (reverse chronological order)
2005:
- Wooller, R. and A. R. Brown, E. Miranda, R. Berry, J. Diederich. 2005. "A framework for comparison of process in algorithmic music systems." Generative Arts Practice. University of Technology.
- Ariza, C. 2005. "Navigating the Landscape of Computer-Aided Algorithmic Composition Systems: A Definition, Seven Descriptors, and a Lexicon of Systems and Research." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 765-772. Internet: http://www.flexatone.net/docs/nlcaacs.pdf abstract
- Ariza, C. 2005. "The Xenakis Sieve as Object: A New Model and a Complete Implementation." Computer Music Journal 29(2): 40-60.
2004:
- Whalley, I. 2004. "Adding Machine Cognition to a Web-based interactive composition." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 197-200.
- Worrall, D. 2004. "Compex Systems in Composition and Improvisation." Organised Sound 9(2): 121-122.
- Sandred, Örjan. 2004. "Interpretation of Everyday Gestures - Composing with Rules." In Proceedings of the Music and Music Science Conference. Internet: http://www.sandred.com/Sandred-gestures.pdf
- Spicer, M. 2004. "AALIVENET: An agent based distributed interactive composition environment." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 211-214.
- Reiners, P. 2004. "Cellular Automata and Music: Using the Java Language for Algorithmic Music Composition." IBM DeveloperWorks. Internet: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-camusic/?ca=dgr-lnxwj01j-camusic
- Hoffman, P. 2004. "'Something rich and strange': Exploring the Pitch Structure of GENDY3." Journal of New Music Research 33(2): 137-144.
- Koelsch, S. and E. Kasper, D. Sammler, K. Schulze, T. Gunter, A. D. Friederici. 2004. "Music, language and meaning: brain signatures of semantic processing." Nature Neuroscience 7: 302-307.
- Ciardi, F. C. 2004. "Real Time Sonification of Stock Market Data with sMax." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 177-179.
- Ariza, C. 2004. "An Object Oriented Model of the Xenakis Sieve for Algorithmic Pitch, Rhythm, and Parameter Generation." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 63-70.
- Beyls, P. 2004. "Cellular Automata Mapping Procedures." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 55-58.
- Blackwell, T. M. and M. W. Young. 2004. "Self-organised music." Organised Sound 9(2): 123-136.
2003:
- Simoni, M. 2003. Algorithmic Composition: A Gentle Introduction to Music Composition Using Common LISP and Common Music. Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, the University of Michigan University Library. Internet: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx? type=simple;c=spobooks;cc=spobooks; sid=4f2c1e1b03b19d2500f65702d1314f0c; rgn=full%20text;q1=simoni;view=toc; subview=short;sort=occur;start=1; size=25;idno=bbv9810.0001.001
- Miranda, E. R. 2003. "On the Music of Emergent Behavior: What Can Evolutionary Computation Bring to the Musician?." Leonardo 36(1): 55-59.
- Johnson, C. G. 2003. "Exploring sound-space with interactive genetic algorithms." Leonardo 36(1): 51-54.
- Johnson, S. 2003. "Music of the Swarms: Who needs musicians when computers can think like bees?." Internet: http://www.discover.com/mar_03/feattech.html
- Collins, N. 2003. "A Microtonal Tempo Canon Generator After Nancarrow and Jaffe." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 183-186.
- Burns, C. 2003. "Emergent Behavior from Idiosyncratic Feedback Networks." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association.
- Berg, P. 2003. Using the AC Toolbox. Den Haag: Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatory
2002:
- Winner, J. and I. Chusid. 2002. "Circle Machines and Sequencers: The Untold History of Raymond Scott's Pioneering Instruments." Internet: http://raymondscott.com/em.html
- Toop, D. 2002. "Humans, Are They Really Necessary? Sound Art, Automata and Musical Sculpture." In Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music. London: Continuum. 117-129.
- Scaletti, C. 2002. "Computer Music Languages, Kyma, and the Future." Computer Music Journal 26(4): 69-82.
- Solomos, M. 2002. "Xenakis' Early Works: From 'Bartokian Project' to 'Abstraction'." Contemporary Music Review 21(2-3): 21-34.
- McCartney, J. 2002. "Rethinking the Computer Music Language." Computer Music Journal 26(4): 61-68.
- Lyon, E. 2002. "Dartmouth Symposium on the Future of Computer Music Software: A Panel Discussion." Computer Music Journal 26(4): 13-30.
- Hoffman, P. 2002. "Towards an 'Automated Art': Algorithmic Processes in Xenakis' Compositions." Contemporary Music Review 21(2-3): 121-131.
- Harley, J. 2002. "The Electroacoustic Music of Iannis Xenakis." Computer Music Journal 26(1): 33-57.
- Harley, J. 2002. "Iannis Xenakis in conversation: 30 May 1993." Contemporary Music Review 21(2-3): 11-20.
- Hamman, M. 2002. "From Technical to Technological: The Imperative of Technology in Experimental Music Composition." Perspectives in New Music 40(1): 92-120.
- Doornbusch, P. 2002. "A Brief Survey of Mapping in Algorithmic Compositions." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 205-210.
- Amitani, S. and K. Hori. 2002. "Supporting musical composition by externalizing the composer's mental space." In Proceedings of the fourth conference on Creativity & cognition. New York: ACM Press. 165-172. Internet: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/581710.581735
2001:
- Vaggione, H. 2001. "Some Ontological Remarks about Music Composition Processes." Computer Music Journal 25(1): 54-61.
- Undercofler, J. 2001. "Computer Programming and the Expanding Compositional Frontier, Part I." Internet: http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=25nw09
- Undercofler, J. 2001. "Computers and the Expanding Compositional frontier, Part II." NewMusicBox.com. Internet: http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=26nw16
- Sturm, B. L. 2001. "Synthesis and Algorithmic Composition Techniques Derived from Particle Physics." Internet: http://www.composerscientist.com /content/research/CATpaper.pdf
- Polansky, L. 2001. "Music and Computers." Internet: http://music.dartmouth.edu /%7Ebook/MATCpages/tableofcontents.html
- Honing, H. 2001. "From Time to Time: The Representation of Timing and Tempo." Computer Music Journal 25(3): 50-61.
- Garcia, R. 2001. "Growing sound synthesizers using evolutionary methods." In Proceedings ALMMA 2001: Artificial Life Models for Musical Applications Workshop (ECAL 2001). E. Bioltta, E. R. Miranda, P. Pantano and P. Todd, eds. Consenza: Editorial Bios. Internet: http://galileo.cincom.unical.it/esg /Music/workshop/articoli/garcia.pdf
- Dahlstedt, P. 2001. "Creating and Exploring Huge Parameter Spaces: Interactive Evolution as a Tool for Sound Generation." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. International Computer Music Association. 285-292.
- Assayag, G. and J. Baboni, K. Haddad. 2001. OpenMusic 4.0 User's Manual and Reference. Paris: IRCAM - Centre Georges Pompidou. Internet: http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes /repmus/OpenMusic/Documentation /OMUserDocumentation/DocFiles /Documentation/index.html
Journal Articles and Books, 1936-1979 (chronological order):
- Benjamin, W. 1936. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 5(1).
- Turing, A. M. 1950. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Mind 59: 433-460.
- Hiller, L. 1956. "Abstracts: Some Structural Principles of Computer Music." Journal of the American Musicological Society 9(3): 247-248.
- Hiller, L. 1959. "Computer Music." Scientific American 201(6): 109-120.
- Mathews, M. V. 1963. "The Digital Computer as a Musical Instrument." Science 142(3592): 553-557.
- Koenig, G. M. 1971. "The Use of Computer Programs in Creating Music." In Music and Technology (Proceedings of the Stockholm Meeting organized by UNESCO). Paris: La Revue Musicale. 93-115.
- Truax, B. 1977. "The POD System of Interactive Composition Programs." Computer Music Journal 1(3): 30-39.
- Hiller, L. 1978. "Phrase Structure in Computer Music." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 192-213.
- Roads, C. 1978. "An Interview with Gottfried Michael Koenig." Computer Music Journal 2(3): 11-15, 29.
- Roads, C. 1979. "Grammars as Representations for Music." Computer Music Journal 3(1): 48-55.
Journal Articles and Books, 1980-2000 (chronological order):
- DeLio, T. 1980. "Iannis Xenakis' 'Nomos Alpha': The Dialectics of Structure and Materials." Journal of Music Theory 24(1): 63-95.
- Koenig, G. M. 1980. "Composition Processes." In UNESCO Computer Music: Report on an international project including the international workshop held at Aarhus, Denmark in 1978. M. Battier and B. Truax, eds. Canadian Commission for UNESCO. 105-126. {amazon}
- Vriend, J. 1981. "'Nomos Alpha' for Violoncello Solo (Xenakis 1966): Analysis and Comments." Interface 10: 15-82.
- Ames, C. 1982. "Crystals: Recursive Structures in Automated Composition." Computer Music Journal 6(3): 46-64.
- Murail, T. 1984. "Spectra and Pixies." Contemporary Music Review 1(1): 157-170.
- Polansky, L. and D. Rosenboom. 1985. "HMSL." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 243-250.
- Boulez. 1986. "Technology and the Composer." In Orientations. J. Nattiez, ed. Translated by M. Cooper. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 486-494.
- Pope, S. T. 1986. "Music Notation and the Representation of Musical Structure and Knowledge." Perspectives of New Music 24(2): 156-189.
- Smalley, D. 1986. "Spectro-Morphology and Structuring Processes." In The Language of Electroacoustic Music. S. Emmerson, ed. London: Macmillan Press. 61-93.
- Spiegel, L. 1986. "Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument." Internet: http://retiary.org/ls/programs.html
- Truax, B. 1986. "Computer Music Language Design and the Composing Process." In The Language of Electroacoustic Music. S. Emmerson, ed. New York: Harwood Academic Publishers. 155-174.
- Ames, C. 1987. "Automated Composition in Retrospect: 1956-1986." Leonardo 20(2): 169-185.
- Barlow, C. 1987. "Two Essays on Theory." Computer Music Journal 11(1): 44-60.
- Laske, O. 1988. "Introduction to Cognitive Musicology." Computer Music Journal 12(1): 43-57.
- Pressing, J. 1988. "Improvisation: Methods and Models." In Generative Processes in Music: The Psychology of Performance, Improvisation and Composition. J. Sloboda, ed. Oxford: Oxford Science Publications. 129-178.
- Truax, B. 1988. "Real-Time Granular Synthesis with a Digital Signal Processing Computer." Computer Music Journal 12(2): 14-26.
- Ames, C. 1989. "The Markov Process as a Compositional Model: A Survey and Tutorial." Leonardo 22(2): 175-187.
- Garton, B. 1989. "The Elthar Program." Perspectives of New Music 27(1): 6-41.
- Spiegel, L. 1989. "Distinguishing Random, Algorithmic, and Intelligent Music." Internet: http://retiary.org/ls/writings /alg_comp_ltr_to_cem.html
- Taube, H. 1989. "Common Music: A Compositional Language in Common Lisp and CLOS." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 316-319
1990-2000:
- Lansky, P. 1990. "A View From the Bus: When Machines Make Music." Perspectives of New Music 28(2): 102-110.
- Pressing, J. 1990. "Cybernetic Issues in Interactive Performance Systems." Computer Music Journal 14(1): 12-25.
- Prusinkiewicz, P. and A. Lindenmayer. 1990. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (The Virtual Laboratory). London: Springer Verlag.
- Ames, C. 1991. "A Catalog of Statistical Distributions: Techniques for Transforming Random, Determinate and Chaotic Sequences." Leonardo Music Journal 1(1): 55-70.
- Chelpa, L. M. 1991. "A Fuzzy-Set-Theoretic Framework Towards Computer Generation of Alap Patterns in Hindustani Music." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 270-276.
- Essl, K. 1991. "Computer Aided Composition." Internet: http://www.essl.at/bibliogr/cac.html
- Gogins, M. 1991. "Iterated Functions Systems Music." Computer Music Journal 15(1): 40-48.
- Laske, O. 1991. "Toward an Epistemology of Composition." Interface 20(3-4): 235-269.
- Lewis, J. P. 1991. "Creation by refinement and the problem of algorithmic music composition." In Music and Connectionism. P. Todd and D. G. Loy, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press. 212-228
- Ames, C. 1992. "Quantifying musical merit." Interface 21(1): 53-93.
- Coniglio, M. 1992. "Introduction to the Interactor Lnaguage." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association.
- Cope, D. 1992. "Computer Modeling of Musical Intelligence in EMI." Computer Music Journal 16(2): 69-83.
- Linster, C. 1992. "On Analyzing and Representing Musical Rhythm." In Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition. M. Balaban, K. Ebcioglu and O. E. Laske, eds. Cambridge: AAAI Press / MIT Press. 415-427.
- Dannenberg, R. 1993. "Music Representation Issues, Techniques, and Systems." Computer Music Journal 17(3): 20-30.
- Zahler, N. 1993. "The compositional process and technological tools: An appraisal of algorithmic composition as it relates to compositional process." Associazione di Informatica Musicale Italiana 67-78.
- McCartney, J. 1996. "SuperCollider: a New Real Time Synthesis Language." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association.
- Orton, R. 1996. "Design Strategies for Algorithmic Composition." Contemporary Music Review 15(3-4): 39-48.
- Xenakis, I. 1996. "Determinacy and Indeterminacy." Organised Sound 1(3): 143-155.
- Dannenberg, R. B. 1997. "Machine Tongues XIX: Nyquist, a Language for Composition and Sound Synthesis." Computer Music Journal 21(3): 50-60.
- Puckette, M. 1997. "Pure Data." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 224-227.
- Selfridge-Field, E. 1997. "Introduction: Describing Musical Information." In Beyond MIDI: the Handbook of Musical Codes. E. Selfridge-Field, ed. Cambrdige: MIT Press. 3-38
- Wegner, P. 1997. "Why Interaction is More Powerful then Algorithms." Communications of the ACM 40(5): 80-91.
- Spiegel, L. 1998. "Thoughts on Microsoft's Algorithmic Composition Patent." Internet: http://retiary.org/ls/writings /alg_comp_patents.html
- Assayag, G. and C. Rueda, M. Laurson, C. Agon, O. Delerue. 1999. "Computer-Assisted Composition at IRCAM: From PatchWork to OpenMusic." Computer Music Journal 23(3): 59-72. Internet: http://www.ircam.fr/equipes /repmus/RMPapers/CMJ98/
- Papadopoulos, G. and G. Wiggins. 1999. "AI Methods for Algorithmic Composition: A Survey, a Critical View and Future Prospects." Internet: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk /~geraint/papers/AISB99b.pdf
Periodicals for ongoing reference:
- Computer Music Journal, Organized Sound, Leonardo, SEAMUS Journal, Electronic Musician Magazine, Mikropolyphonie (online journal).
Websites for ongoing reference:
- International Computer Music Association: www.computermusic.org
- Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States: www.seamusonline.org
- Landy, L. and S. Atkinson. 2005. "Ears: ElectroAcoustic Resource Site." Internet: http://www.ears.dmu.ac.uk/
- Maurer, J. A. 1999. "A Brief History of Algorithmic Composition." Internet: http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~blackrse/algorithm.html
- Anonymous. 2000. "History of Electronic and Computer Music Including Automatic Instruments and Composition Machines." Internet: http://music.dartmouth.edu/~wowem /electronmedia/music/eamhistory.html
- Cope, D. 2000. "A Brief History." Internet: http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/history.html
- Surrealism Test Center. 2000. "Algorithmic Music." Internet: http://www.sharemation.com/~bravedog /cyberdelia4.htm
- Jarvelainen, H. 2000. Algorithmic Musical Composition. Internet: http://www.tml.hut.fi/Studies/Tik-111.080/2000/papers/hanna/alco.pdf